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Example sentences of "[pron] seemed [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I seemed all set to continue my way to the top outdoors , but as it turned out , the highlight of my summer was getting my photograph in Athletics Weekly , the bible of the sport , for the first time .
2	I seemed right doing , alright drying my feet now and not my .
3	‘ I beg your pardon if I seemed ungracious .
4	Even when I seemed crazy : even on Starr Hills .
5	Forgive me if I seemed confused .
6	Miles of sugar cane , followed by miles of flat desert country , all seen through a damp haze so that nothing seemed real .
7	Nothing seemed impossible ; the whole of biology was about to become transparent to this wondrous new science .
8	Nothing seemed suitable , and Lydia determined to brush up her knowledge of rural matters and husbandry .
9	In one field the soil was arid ; nothing seemed able to grow there but a sort of grass that even sheep disdained , and thistles a hobbled donkey was sampling .
10	Kate tried to giggle , reading out the directions on the stew , but nothing seemed funny .
11	None of them seemed anxious to comply and Trent doubted his strength would last long enough to haul Gomez against the weight of the Zodiac .
12	None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police .
13	Again the space between them seemed solid .
14	They were elicited by my questions about his earlier career , and most of them seemed new to Laura for she laughed with unfeignable gaiety , her head at moments in helpless tears against his chest .
15	In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history .
16	He believed the nurses all fancied him , but none of them seemed willing to do anything about it .
17	The pair of them seemed pompous , arrogant and vain to the point of caricature .
18	Her duties were many , and none of them seemed onerous to her .
19	So many small rivalries existed between different cliques in the camp and so many of them seemed synthetic that it looked sometimes as if antagonism was essential to human beings as a form of self-expression .
20	Helen gave a talk about her work , but there was one subject about life in a space capsule which everyone seemed curious about , and which Helen duly explained :
21	Everyone seemed content to let them get on with it .
22	No-one seemed concerned that the museums , the temples of culture and art , were subjected to such indignities .
23	Only the flowers in the vase on the table in front of me seemed real .
24	Now for all those reasons madame speaker , this these orders er er today are inadequate , too little , too late , we ca n't vote against them , much as the the member who preceded me seemed inclined to vote against them and I wish that he had the g er the guts of 'is cu the courage of his convictions er he should vote against them , er we on this side are far more responsible er than that because to vote against them er might be an indication that we 're as much in frau in favour of fraud as members on the other side of the house , er we 're not in favour of fraud , we welcome any progress to detection of fraud , even progress that we asked for five eight years ago when the relevant legislation was passed .
25	However , nobody seemed anxious to chair him round the hall , or anywhere .
26	Nobody seemed all that surprised at her pushing off . ’
27	Nobody seemed right .
28	Nancy had been at her wits ' end and nobody seemed able to help .
29	‘ Aye , ’ replied Jonadab. ’ 'E seemed good at his job .
30	If the tests were truly designed for the control of ‘ anti-social influences in the arts ’ , as the Report said , then how could the law seem other than misconceived when a decade or more of legal scrutiny and barristers ' banter had been publicly squandered on the anti-social potential of pubic hair , the peculiar dangers of which seemed clearer to the police than to juries .